Robert Gates: “I believe that Russia may be unnecessarily concerned simply because the SM-3 Block IIB is still in development.”

Without proper and predictable funding, no amount of reform or clever reorganization will provide America with a military capable of accomplishing the missions it's assigned to.

No more continuing resolutions.

He's going to insist on occupying all four of the eastern provinces of the Donbas.

Putin feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire.